“I will never lose anything that an audience will miss”

I’ve always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly

There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.

I’m addicted to directing!

Mary J. Blige is the Queen Latifah character. Her voice in this movie [Rock of ages] is, she just gives it this incredible warmth, and she’s just this person who blows out of the screen. She’s just incredible.

He’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.

I’m living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

Filthy McNasty’s and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.

When I put something into motion

And I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.

Most of the actors have said “this is the best role they’ve ever had.” So you know, that’s important to me.

People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

I actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That’s the way studios do it now.

The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy’s going to hang out on the top of the Burj

Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

Anything I would do, I would have to be me. That is how it would work.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.